Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,360
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$16,260
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,247
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wyoming — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$84,620
Kept after tax
$68,360
Worth in national money
$75,247
State rank
1
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Wyoming pays maintenance workers, machinery a middle wage of $84,620, ranking 1 of 46 states and sitting about 39.06% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Wyoming. It ranks 82 out of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $84,620 you keep $68,360, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $75,247 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $88,540, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's median for maintenance workers, machinery is $84,620, about 39.06% above the national figure and 1 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Wyoming, maintenance workers, machinery ranks 82 of 433 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for maintenance workers, machinery on $84,620 is $68,360. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $75,247 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $88,540 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $84,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $112,010 |
| This salary | $84,620 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Wyoming | $68,360 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,360 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,899 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $84,620 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,767 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of maintenance workers, machinery in Wyoming earn under $84,620 and half over. The published range runs $60,740 at the tenth percentile to $112,010 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $68,360, worked from $84,620. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 82 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $75,247, the adjusted value of that $84,620 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 82 of 433 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for maintenance workers, machinery in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $60,740 to $112,010; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Wyoming take-home of $68,360, on $84,620 for work ranking 82 of 433 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 82 of 433 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $75,247 — the adjusted value of that $84,620 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 82 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $88,540, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $60,740 at the tenth percentile, $112,010 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wyoming is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $75,247 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $68,360 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Wyoming is $88,540. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($60,740 to $112,010) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wyoming rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wyoming's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $75,247 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Wyoming levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $68,360 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.